Why is it customary to eat duck eggs, mung bean cake and zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi is to drive away the dragon to commemorate the Qu Yuan, and eat salted duck eggs is because the Dragon Boat Festival heralded the arrival of the hot summer, the climate at this time is very humid, especially prone to breeding bacteria, caused by the plague of sores and other diseases, and the shape of the duck egg is more like a heart, so people in ancient times thought, eat salted duck eggs can protect their heart from damage to the God.

In the traditional festivals, on the folklore of the many complex, or only the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival can be compared, have a blessing, disaster and other rituals and customs theme, sent people to meet the good luck and blessing, to ward off evil wishes. Duanwu customs are mainly picking dragon boat, sacrificing to the dragon, picking herbs, hanging mugwort and calamus, worshipping the gods and ancestors, wash the herbal water, playing the water at noon, dipping the dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, paper kites, look at the Dragon Boat, tethering the five-color silk thread, fumigation of Cangzhu, Pei Xiangcheng, and so on. Grill dragon boat activities in China's southern coastal areas are very prevalent, spread abroad by the people of various countries and the formation of international competitions. Duanwu food dumplings custom, since ancient times in all parts of China, has become the Chinese nation's most influential, the most extensive coverage of one of the folk dietary practices.